alarmed - Story 1998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university's admissions blog. A smiling face. A link: "Meet Our Successful Applicants." Her stomach dropped. The familiar words of her essay about her artistic aspirations. "Inspirational." "A testament to resilience." The words felt like knives.

He had expected it to be private, her confession of why she wanted to pursue painting. He re-read it. The vulnerability, the exposure. He quickly closed the webpage, heart now pounding.

He threw his phone across the room. It shattered against the wall. He paced around his bedroom, unable to settle, he knew that the essay was now a permanent part of the digital landscape. A sick feeling began to overcome him.

Emotion: alarmed

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.07 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.14

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion alarmed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 alarmed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the alarmed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the alarmed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😰`	0.304
`😨`	0.272
`worse`	0.269
`😣`	0.261
`не`	0.254

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.323
`enthusi`	-0.258
`happy`	-0.235
`delight`	-0.225
`ية`	-0.217